copper prices

Copper is red-hot, and so are ETFs that track the industrial metal. Prices rocketed to new records as traders responded to increasing talks of the U.S. imposing hefty tariffs on copper imports in the near future — several months before the schedule originally anticipated, according to Bloomberg...

While the rescue of underground copper miners at the San Jose facility in Chile captured the world's attention in 2010, but the industry is now working to keep those miners happy. BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP), according to an article in Bloomberg Businessweek, is now using high salaries and generous...

Why do big multi-national banks do much of anything? To make money, of course. Two investor lawsuits against JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) and HSBC Holdings plc (ADR) (NYSE: HBC) in October alleged that the banks colluded to short silver, drive down prices and reap hundreds of millions of...